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Mariah Carey was born on march 27,1969,In huntingtin, New York. Her name is derived from the song''They call the wind maria' 'originally from the 1951 Broadway musical paint your wagon. She is the youngest of three children born to Patricia nee hickey, a former opera singer and vocal coach of lrish descent, and Alfeld Roy Carey an aeronautical englneer of African-American and afro-venzaelan liege. The last name ''Carey'' was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Nunez, after he emigrated to New York.patricas family disowned her for marrying a black man. Racial tensions prevented the Carey family from integrating, into there community. While they lived in Huntington, their car. After her parents divorce, Carey had little contact with her father, and her mother worked several jobs to support the family Carey spent much of her time at home alone and began singing at the age of three, often imitating her mother take an Verdis open Rigoletto in Italian her older sister Alison moved in her with there father while Mariah and her older brother morgan lived with their mother.